Gavin Sacks has recently published a new textbook, Understanding Wine Chemistry, in collaboration with Andrew Waterhouse (UC Davis) and David Jeffery (University of Adelaide). Much of the content was inspired by material from Gavin’s class on wine and grape flavor chemistry at Cornell (VIEN 4400). The publisher, Wiley, was kind enough to sponsor a book Read More…

Welcome to Ted Russin, who is starting a PhD in the Sacks Lab. Ted has extensive experience in polysaccharides and gums, and is currently a faculty member at Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in Hyde Park. http://www.ciachef.edu/ted-russin/.

Congratulations to Greg Dlubac (MPS ’15), who will be starting as Assistant Winemaker at Millbrook Winery in the Hudson Valley. Greg recently returned from a harvest internship in the Hunter Valley of Australia, so this will be a change in weather And, congratulations to Lindsay Springer (PhD ’16), who has started as an Enologist at Read More…

This is Lindsay’s second award for Best Oral Presentation at ASEV. Her talk was titled, “Limits on red wine tannin extraction and addition Part II: The role of pathogenesis-related proteins in terroir”. Congratulations Lindsay! http://www.asev.org/best-student-presentation-awards    

Congratulation Lindsay! http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2015/03/lindsay-springer-wins-top-grad-student-food-chemistry-prize  

Pat has two articles in press for the August issue of AJEV, one with Jussara Coelho (visiting scientist) on headspace SO2 measurements, http://www.ajevonline.org/content/early/2015/04/15/ajev.2015.14125.abstract and the other with Sue Ebeler (UC Davis) evaluating interlaboratory proficiency in common wine analyses. http://www.ajevonline.org/content/early/2015/04/15/ajev.2015.14119.abstract And, her thesis was approved by her PhD committee, so she’s on track to graduate in Read More…

A paper on sulfur residue persistence by former PhD student Misha Kwasniewski, Gavin Sacks, and Wayne Wilcox (Plant Pathology, Cornell) was selected as the 2015 Best Viticulture Paper in the American Journal of Enology & Viticulture. The award ceremony will be held at the June 2015 ASEV Meeting in Potland, OR. http://www.asev.org/best-paper-awards  

Pilar Gomez-Cortes, a former post-doc split between the Sacks lab and the lab of Tom Brenna (Nutritional Sciences) has just had a second publication come out on using broad spectrum isotopically labeled standards for analysis of oxidized oils . . . congratulations! http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814614017440  

News just in that Madeleine Bee, chem major at American University and Cornell FS Summer Scholar this past summer, was selected as one of the finalists for the ACS Ag Food Division Undergrad Symposium in Spring 2015 in Denver. Madeleine worked with Pat Howe on new, inexpensive ways to measure volatile acids in wineries. Well Read More…

From Misha Kwasniewski’s PhD research . . . he uses a newly developed method to track the fate elemental S sprays on grapes during ripening, and during pre-fermentation processes. its well known that too much elemental S on grapes results in more H2S during fermentation. What Misha shows, in a nutshell, is that harvesting within Read More…